Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront that rotates identities every six months to highlight another country. Each iteration of the project is augmented by events, performances, and discussions that seek to expand the engagement the public has with the culture, politics, and issues at stake within the focus country. These events have included live international Skype dinner parties between citizens of Pittsburgh and young professionals in Tehran, Iran; documentary filmmakers in Kabul, Afghanistan; and community radio activists in Caracas, Venezuela.

Fascinating article from the WSJ today. More states have expanded the rights and allowances of gun owners since Newtown than have passed new restrictive legislation. Compare this to what your TV says is true:

Predictions on how far the market will drop today with only 88,000 jobs created in March? What's fascinating though is unemployment actually dropped to 7.6% because 496,000 people left the job market to drop to 63.3% which is the lowest in 35 years.

DelPen wrote:Predictions on how far the market will drop today with only 88,000 jobs created in March? What's fascinating though is unemployment actually dropped to 7.6% because 496,000 people left the job market to drop to 63.3% which is the lowest in 35 years.

In my experience, 90% of the nasty comments after prominent political figures die come from the left. Both sides have the extremists that will make an ass out of themselves, but it seems to be much more accepted on a mainstream level when prominent conservatives pass away.

shafnutz05 wrote:In my experience, 90% of the nasty comments after prominent political figures die come from the left. Both sides have the extremists that will make an ass out of themselves, but it seems to be much more accepted on a mainstream level when prominent conservatives pass away.

shafnutz05 wrote:In my experience, 90% of the nasty comments after prominent political figures die come from the left. Both sides have the extremists that will make an ass out of themselves, but it seems to be much more accepted on a mainstream level when prominent conservatives pass away.

The funny thing is, looking back at Thatcher's tightening of civil liberties (and oh yes, she most certainly clamped down on that during her tenure), compare some of those actions with the most recent infringements on civil liberties:

1) Ramped up use of drone strikes

2) Increased use of domestic drones, including the possibility of using armed drones in domestic situations

3) Continued endorsement of the PATRIOT Act

4) Indefinite detention of US citizens (I believe Thatcher expanded it from 24 hours to four days)

5) Extraordinary rendition

6) Authorizing the targeted killing of American citizens without a warrant

7) The revelation that actual kill lists exist of said people targeted for assassination

8) Gitmo...still open

9) National Defense Authorization Act

The list goes on, but you get my point. I agree that Thatcher's infringements on civil liberties were unacceptable, but viewed through the prism of what we are experiencing now is pretty remarkable. And when was the last good protest song we heard.....4 1/2 years ago?

Most certainly, because the Cold War was a lot more important from an American perspective than it was to the Brits. Americans knew her as a staunch ally against a bitter enemy, but weren't affected by her domestic policies.

shafnutz05 wrote:In my experience, 90% of the nasty comments after prominent political figures die come from the left. Both sides have the extremists that will make an ass out of themselves, but it seems to be much more accepted on a mainstream level when prominent conservatives pass away.

It's sad, but certainly expected.

I absolutely agree with this.

There are exceptions, I think when Fidel finally goes there will be a lot of celebrating, but in general you don't see the same level of nastiness when a Liberal icon dies. (see also: Ted Kennedy)